Resultados13 letters/passages
symmachus · c. 373 · score 0.02
While you are busy relieving the hardships of the provincials, a heavier blow has fallen on the Apulians. Their grain is being requisitioned because of a groundless rumor of abundance — grain that will be stripped from the province without ever reaching the public supply in time. How can so great a shipment be prepared …
symmachus · c. 386 · score 0.02
You were joking, I think, when you wrote that you'd been frightened by soldiers on the road -- a transparent excuse to keep us from following you deep into Campania. If even you, a man who spent years in military camps, felt some alarm, what would a soft civilian like me have suffered? But I won't let a pretended scare …
symmachus · c. 387 · score 0.02
I recently received a letter from Euscius reporting that our charioteers and some stage performers have been put aboard ship and sent to Campania, as I instructed. Please have your most reliable men go all the way to the coast at Salernum [modern Salerno] to meet them and escort them on to Naples -- or at least to trac …
symmachus · c. 389 · score 0.02
I've already used up my writing time with the servant heading back to Campania, but I didn't want your saintly and honorable father Severus to leave without a letter from me -- partly to fulfill my duty of greeting and partly to share my inspection of the building project at your house. I was very pleased with both the …
symmachus · c. 389 · score 0.02
Our reasons for not writing are different, but the result is the same. I'm held up by the duties of the pontificate; you, by the pleasant negligence of your holiday at Baiae. Relaxation makes a man just as lazy as overwork. And no wonder that coast claims you entirely — we know for certain that Hannibal himself, undefe …
symmachus · c. 374 · score 0.02
If you know my heart at all, you can't doubt that poor health was the only thing keeping me from writing. Now that I've cleared that excuse, here is a letter to testify that I'm well again -- since recovery has removed the justification for silence. Farewell. TO THE SAME: I'd learned from my son's report that you were …
symmachus · c. 386 · score 0.01
You've been free of public duties for some time -- you should have returned in person rather than soothing your friends' longing with letters. If your health is fine, what reason is left for lingering in Campania? Are you deliberately depriving those who love you most of your company? Think of the city and think of us. …
symmachus · c. 384 · score 0.01
I've been idle for some time in the retreats of Campania and had no opportunity to write. That's why my usual correspondence with you went cold for a while. But now that I've set foot back in Rome, my first thought was to resume our exchange. So I send you the customary greeting of friendship, asking two things: that y …
symmachus · c. 371 · score 0.01
...so that we may hear good news of your health and your affairs, and pass this short time we plan to spend in Campania without being troubled by your silence. Farewell.
symmachus · c. 394 · score 0.01
Our Senate's delegates have returned after handling everything successfully. The conscription levy has been dropped, and we've been granted a remission on silver [tax relief]. Even so, further negotiations on the terms are still expected. But enough of public business -- let me turn to what matters more to your heart. …
symmachus · c. 383 · score 0.01
You're trying to lure me out of Campania's embrace with praises of your Tiburtine estate. Dense cypresses, abundant springs, the mountain cool -- it's everything you say. But I'd only pine for it if you'd lingered there longer. As it is, your quick return to Rome makes me suspect you got bored of the place. Pleasures s …
symmachus · c. 368 · score 0.01
I'm in good spirits now that you've remembered your promise and set out. But we need to move quickly — while the season is still warm, let's seize the pleasures of autumn before they slip away. In these months Campania shines with the bounty of the fields and the beauty of the orchards. Baiae is tempered by rare rain a …
symmachus · c. 374 · score 0.01
To our friend Castor, who is returning to Campania, I've entrusted more verbal instructions about household matters than written ones. You'll learn more from his account than from any letter. Most of these details [Text breaks off in source.]